Word: speedboat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...received standing ovations, and he was near tears as he embraced the soloist and first-desk musicians. The orchestra, at an emotion-laden private party, gave him a silver-and-gold mezuzah, sculpted by Artist Resia Schor; the directors of the Philharmonic presented him with a 19-ft.-long speedboat, so that Lenny can practice his skills as a water-skier on Long Island Sound near his Connecticut country home...
...Speedboat Raids. Around Port Harcourt in the south, Biafrans have kept at bay Nigerian troops, who are 25 miles down the channel on Bonny Island. They have mounted gun batteries and trip-wire mines around the channel to discourage a waterborne assault, even venture out in speedboats for raids on Bonny. Biafran guerrillas sneak into their occupied capital of Enugu at night to harry the federal garrison, are battling with rusty Dane guns and cutlasses against a federal division along the Niger River. The Biafrans have also prevented another invasion force dug into the port town of Calabar from crossing...
...quoted from Admiral Farragut and Stonewall Jackson. Since the Vance would be involved in Operation Market Time, the Navy's screening of Vietnamese coastal junk and sampan traffic for Viet Cong infiltrators, Arnheiter also insisted on a refresher course in small arms, ordered the purchase of a $950 speedboat from the ship's recreation fund. Though the 20-knot boat was supposedly to be used primarily for off-duty water skiing and swimming parties, he had it mounted with a .30-cal. machine gun for patrol work, since it was much faster than the Vance's motor...
...that he would not have to share them with other destroyers, and thus risk having to go back to port to replenish. That, too, violated Navy Regs. On patrol duty, he was combative to a fault. In hopes of locating Communist shore batteries, Arnheiter sent the speedboat close inshore to draw their fire, meanwhile bringing the Vance and her 3-in. guns into the largely uncharted shoal waters off the coast to strike when the Reds revealed themselves. Several times, he fired his pistol at "sea snakes" near junks that his men were inspecting; often he fired warning shots across...
...plays games with herself such as How Can That Be?, in which she makes up an impossible situation, asks herself "How can that be?" and is disappointed if she cannot concoct a way it could be. She is unable to explain, for instance, why "an upside-down-speedboat made of rose petals was in orbit around the moon...